History Series / TheSoup

* ChromaKey: The main "set" for each show. As such the show can also come from other exotic locales when Joel has another project to do such as...St. Louis (when he was shooting ''The Informant!''), Austin, Texas (filming ''Film/SpyKids4'' at Creator/RobertRodriguez's greenscreen complex) and UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity (doing press and upfronts for ''Series/{{Community}}''). However these shows can be notable for being the least funny due to the regular crew not being in tow, Joel only able to get writer and director input via Skype and winging it alone, and a different sound and tenor to the audience, who is usually just either rounded up at random or in the St. Louis case, was taped at a Creator/{{PBS}} station with a crowd of confused station employees and donating members who wondered why a guy was making Creator/ParisHilton jokes in front of a green screen instead of [[CookingShow cooking]] or teaching adults how to get their GED.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

** One example involved a clip of a woman from the reality show ''Pregnant in Heels'' who was hesitant about having sex while pregnant. Joel's response: "Well, you're not pregnant in your mouth." He then brought out the woman that wrote the joke who proceeded to deliver the original version, [[spoiler: "in the butt"]].

** Clips including Lou in some way (like the 'dogs playing poker' intro) are usually followed by Joel claiming it took 9 hours to film.

Regular characters on ''The Soup'' include Mankini ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a man wearing a bikini]]), a dancing maxipad, two ''StarWars'' nerds, and Lou the chihuahua. Regular segments include "Chicks, Man", "Reality Show Clip Time!", "[[SelfDeprecation Let's Take Some E!]]", "Oprah's Vajayjay", "Gay Shows" and the "Clip of the Week", the last of which, is the only true remaining bit from Talk Soup. It doesn't take itself [[strike:too]] at all seriously.

On February 12, 2020, E! {{Uncancelled}} ''The Soup'' with a new host: Brazilian comedienne Jade Catta-Preta.

** In ''La Sopa Mexico'', Eduardo Videgaray can't avoid to point out the machismo, the tons of innuendo and all the UnfortunateImplications present in the show ''Acábatelo!'' [[invoked]]

* CouchGag: For a while it had the most literal example next to TropeNamer ''TheSimpsons'' - during the opening sequence, Joel and Lou are on a couch watching a clip from/related to a big media event of the previous week.

* TransAtlanticEquivalent: E! UK ran a British version called ''Celebrity Soup'' (one of the channel's few locally-produced series) hosted by Iain Lee. Suffice to say that completely missing what makes something work is [[NotSoDifferent not exclusively an American trait]]; started in 2005, binned in 2006.

* TransAtlanticEquivalent: E! UK ran a British version called ''Celebrity Soup'' (one of the channel's few locally-produced series) hosted by Iain Lee. Suffice to say that [[CompletelyMissingThePoint completely missing what makes something work]] is [[NotSoDifferent not exclusively an American trait]]; started in 2005, binned in 2006.

First, starting in 1991 there was ''Talk Soup'' with [[Film/LittleMissSunshine Greg Kinnear]] (and various other hosts after him: [[Series/{{Wipeout2008}} John Henson]], Creator/HalSparks, and [[Series/GhostWhisperer Aisha Tyler]]), which mainly focused on making fun of talk shows. That ended in 2002 when most of the companies airing the talk shows stopped providing clips. Apparently, they thought it was giving them a bad name. [[TakeThat Unsurprisingly, these shows were gone after a couple of years]].

* E! sister channel Style had ''The Dish'', hosted by [[Series/BoyMeetsWorld Danielle Fishel]], that gave special attention to the feminine side of pop culture: fashion, weddings, interior design, etc. Segments included "Clip Closet", "Daylight Cravings", "Here Come the Brides", and a closing "Freak of the Week". Canceled in March 2011, though -- likely due to ratings issues and the NBC/Comcast merger making it verboten for Style to [[BitingTheHandHumor make fun of Bravo and Oxygen's programming]] now that they're all sister networks.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A commercial advertising the show's move to Wednesday nights featured Joel [=McHale=] talking with a child dressed for a Toddlers and Tiaras-style beauty pageant. There was a [[RuleThirtyFour 34]] displayed on her sash.
** A February 2014 episode featured a two-minute long skit celebrating the fact that standards and practices were allowing them to say "wet muff" and proceeded to say it about 117 times.

First, starting in 1991 there was ''Talk Soup'' with [[Film/LittleMissSunshine Greg Kinnear]] (and various other hosts after him: [[Series/{{Wipeout2008}} John Henson]], [[ILoveTheExties Hal Sparks]], and [[Series/GhostWhisperer Aisha Tyler]]), which mainly focused on making fun of talk shows. That ended in 2002 when most of the companies airing the talk shows stopped providing clips. Apparently, they thought it was giving them a bad name. [[TakeThat Unsurprisingly, these shows were gone after a couple of years]].

First, starting in 1991 there was ''Talk Soup'' with [[Film/LittleMissSunshine Greg Kinnear]] (and various other hosts after him: [[Series/{{Wipeout2008}} John Henson]], [[ILoveTheExties Hal Sparks]], and [[Series/GhostWhisperer Aisha Tyler]]), which mainly focused on making fun of talk shows. That ended in 2002 when most of the companies airing the talk shows stopped providing clips. Apparently, they thought it was giving them a bad name. [[TakeThat These shows were unsurprisingly gone after a couple of years]].

** Let's not forget how much of a pussy Aaron Carter is.

* ChromaKey: The main "set" for each show. As such the show can also come from other exotic locales when Joel has another project to do such as...St. Louis (when he was shooting ''The Informant!''), Austin, Texas (filming ''Film/SpyKids 4'' at Creator/RobertRodriguez's greenscreen complex) and UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity (doing press and upfronts for ''Series/{{Community}}''). However these shows can be notable for being the least funny due to the regular crew not being in tow, Joel only able to get writer and director input via Skype and winging it alone, and a different sound and tenor to the audience, who is usually just either rounded up at random or in the St. Louis case, was taped at a Creator/{{PBS}} station with a crowd of confused station employees and donating members who wondered why a guy was making Creator/ParisHilton jokes in front of a green screen instead of [[CookingShow cooking]] or teaching adults how to get their GED.

The SeriesFinale aired in the US on December 18, 2015. In 2018, Creator/{{Netflix}} began airing ''Series/TheJoelMcHaleShowWithJoelMcHale'', a show similar to ''The Soup'' (Mankini is now One Piece Man).

First, there was ''Talk Soup'' with [[Film/LittleMissSunshine Greg Kinnear]] (and various other hosts after him: [[Series/{{Wipeout2008}} John Henson]], [[ILoveTheExties Hal Sparks]], and [[Series/GhostWhisperer Aisha Tyler]]), which mainly focused on making fun of talk shows. That ended in 2002 when most of the companies airing the talk shows stopped providing clips. Apparently, they thought it was giving them a bad name. [[TakeThat These shows were unsurprisingly gone after a couple of years]].

The SeriesFinale aired in the US on December 18, 2015. In 2018, Creator/{{Netflix}} began airing ''The Joel [=McHale=] Show with Joel [=McHale=]'', a show similar to ''The Soup'' (Mankini is now One Piece Man).

The SeriesFinale aired in the US on December 18, 2015. In 2018, Creator/{{Netflix}} began airing ''The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale'', a show similar to ''The Soup'' (Mankini is now One Piece Man).

The SeriesFinale aired in the US on December 18, 2015. In 2018, Creator/{{Netflix}} began airing ''The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale'', a show similar to ''The Soup'' (Mankini is now One Piece Man.)

The SeriesFinale aired in the US on December 18, 2015.

* ''E! Latin America'' has its own Spanish version of the show now aptly named ''La Sopa'' (which is Spanish for ''The Soup''), hosted by Mexican comedian (and ex-Big Brother VIP participant) Eduardo Videgaray. It's the same show and same format but instead focused on Latin American shows like Mexican soap operas. Two other versions of the show, one for the Venezuelan feed hosted by comedian Led Varela, and another for the Colombian feed, hosted by Alejandro Riaño, were premiered on July 2013.

** The Latinamerican versions take a step further: they don't only have the section for mocking ''E!'' shows, they all have a section to specifically mock the shows about the Karsashian family, appropriately called "''Es tan Kardashian!''" ("It's so Kardashian")

First, there was ''Talk Soup'' with [[LittleMissSunshine Greg Kinnear]] (and various other hosts after him: [[Series/{{Wipeout2008}} John Henson]], [[ILoveTheExties Hal Sparks]], and [[Series/GhostWhisperer Aisha Tyler]]), which mainly focused on making fun of talk shows. That ended in 2002 when most of the companies airing the talk shows stopped providing clips. Apparently, they thought it was giving them a bad name. [[TakeThat These shows were unsurprisingly gone after a couple of years]].